Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [art] long [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The journey to the hacienda is difficult by car and quite a long way .
2 The thunder started as she reached the gate , a great crash and then a long roll of drums .
3 Here we were sorted our into groups according to the types of honours and quite a long wait ensued .
4 The majority of women , however , will probably have left parents and home a long time before , and spent many of their subsequent years caring for children and a partner , running the home and having a job too .
5 Their course is so far short : the first national Green Party founded in New Zealand as the Value Party in 1972 , the next in the United Kingdom in the following year and then a long gap until Ecolo in Belgium in 1980 heralded a rush either to set up or amalgamate existing groups into parties in the early and mid-1980s .
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